Of all the collasal errors of judgment this has to be near the top of the list. Not only did Wagner bike 180 miles — 180 miles!!! — for sex with a 15-year-old (which is a crime there’s approximately a 2 percent chance he might possibly get away with), he had live in destitution in Scranton for two days. Scranton! A town so beset with general malaise and depression that The Office found it a fitting site for a business park-lampooning sitcom.

Cycling has never really been my thing, but it’s hard to ignore a story out of Scranton, Pennsylvania about a guy who rode his bike from Maryland to Scranton for the sole purpose of meeting and having sex with a 15-year-old girl. He’s a regular Lance Armstrong, this guy. Just much, much creepier.

(I’m just assuming the guy’s bike looked like this)

26-year-old William Wagner’s “Tour de Statutory Assault” began in his hometown of Havre de Grace, Maryland, and continued 180 miles to a baseball field in Scranton. You might be shocked to learn that all of this was set up on MySpace. Wagner of course contends he thought the girl was 18.